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Press Releases

2015

Calendar Advisory – A Musical Journey through Jewish Space
Modeling the Synagogue – From Dura to Touro

2014

October 7, 1944
Echoes of the Borscht Belt: Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld
Fall Preview
Monument to A.D Gordon
It’s a Thin Line: Eruv from Talmudic to Modern Culture

2013

Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German‐Speaking Academic Culture
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews
Fall Preview
Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War

2012

It’s a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond
Sh’ma/Listen: The Art of David Gelernter
Microcosms: Ruth Abrams, Abstract Expressionist
Trail of the Magic Bullet: The Jewish Encounter with Modern Medicine, 1860-1960
Silk Stones: Works by Rochelle Rubinstein
Revelation: The Fourth Annual Stern College Senior Art Show

2011

Jews on Vinyl
Sam Borenstein and the Colors of Montreal
There is a Mirror in My Heart: Reflections on a Righteous Grandfather
Art in Action
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
Prophecy of Place
Old and the New: Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague